I applied this model to the Korean rice market. A major finding is that the Korean government has gotten more and more utilitarian in policy and should have imported rice to sustain neutrality to inequity in Korean rice market.

Originally, the application of commercially available monothiohexafluoroacetylacetone (HFAS) and its formation of volatile chelates with metals of environmental significance to rapid, multi-element analysis was under ...

This study explored the utility of an oral microbial inoculum as a therapeutic tool to affect systemic immune responses. Colonization of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is initiated during birth and continually seeded from ...

Tofu, being the most important source of protein in the Orient, is gaining popularity throughout the world. The Oriental method of producing soymilk for making tofu resulted in beany flavor, low protein and total solids ...

The objectives of this study were to investigate the determinants of employed women's allocation of time for housework, market work, and commuting; to compare the time allocation by women and men in relation to their hourly ...

Based on the findings, it is recommended that the agricultural delivery system design and implement timely and clientele-customized financial, information, educational and communication packages. The packages should focus ...

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is a type C, chronic transforming retrovirus that infects B-lymphocytes and is associated with a long latency period. We studied the transcriptional activation of BLV in primary cells and also ...

Increasing muscle growth is beneficial to the meat animal industry and for biomedical research. Altering myostatin function and administration of β-adrenergic agonists, such as clenbuterol, enhances muscle growth. However, ...

Three studies were conducted to investigate gene linkage, ontogeny of gene expression, and reproductive isolation in pure species crappies and their interspecific hybrids. In the first study, the potential linkage relationships ...

Includes maps of crop reporting districts, precipitation, and freeze zones; and tables of Illinois total and farm population, 1920-70; number and size of farms, 1970-75; population by counties, 1970, 1973, and 1974; and ...

A technique is presented to generate alternatives that are different from each other, but good with respect to modeled objectives, for problems that can be modeled by dynamic programming. The technique is compared to other ...